Chronicle screen memories

OpenAI has added Chronicle to its Codex desktop app, letting the assistant turn snapshots of your Mac screen into reusable memory. (developers.openai.com) Chronicle is an opt-in research preview in the Codex app on macOS, and it needs Apple’s Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions before it can watch what is on screen. OpenAI says the feature helps Codex recover recent work context so users do not have to restate it in every thread. (developers.openai.com) The feature sits inside Codex “memories,” a system that carries stable preferences, workflows, project conventions, and recurring pitfalls from earlier sessions into later ones. OpenAI says Chronicle is one way those memories get built, alongside regular chat history and local recall. (developers.openai.com) Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent, and the desktop app has been expanding from code generation into a broader work surface for software tasks. OpenAI said on April 17 that the app now includes computer use, browsing, image generation, memory, plugins, and support for remote development boxes over Secure Shell. (openai.com) Chronicle arrives as OpenAI pushes Codex closer to an assistant that can follow ongoing work across windows, files, and apps instead of answering one prompt at a time. That makes memory more useful, but it also means the model is handling more live context from a user’s machine. (openai.com; developers.openai.com) OpenAI’s own warning is unusually direct: Chronicle “uses rate limits quickly,” “increases risk of prompt injection,” and “stores memories unencrypted on your device.” The company tells users to review those tradeoffs before turning it on. (developers.openai.com) Prompt injection is a security attack in which hidden instructions inside outside content try to steer an artificial intelligence system away from what the user asked. OpenAI says the risk grows as agents gain access to more tools, more data, and more ability to act across apps and services. (openai.com) Geography is another limit. OpenAI says computer use in the Codex app is available on macOS “except in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland at launch,” and a community rollout post said memory and related personalization features would reach European Union and United Kingdom users later. (developers.openai.com; community.openai.com) The Codex app itself is no longer limited to ChatGPT Pro. OpenAI’s current documentation says ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise plans include Codex, while the app is available on macOS and Windows and notes platform-specific exceptions in feature docs. (developers.openai.com; developers.openai.com) For now, Chronicle looks less like a default assistant feature than a test of how much memory users will trade for convenience. OpenAI is offering it with the permissions, storage, and security warnings up front, and leaving the switch off unless users choose otherwise. (developers.openai.com)